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March 14, 2018
Kirkland & Ellis has hired restructuring partner Matthew Czyzyk from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Czyzyk’s focus is on complex financial restructurings throughout Europe. He, along with three associates, will be

March 5, 2018
Mayer Brown has brought on former Kirkland & Ellis corporate partner James John Antonopoulos to join its banking and finance practice.
Antonopoulos focuses on automobile loans and leases and equipment loans, but more

February 28, 2018
Kirkland & Ellis has recruited Clifford Chance consultant Richard Sharpe to join its government and internal investigations group in Hong Kong as a partner.
Sharpe’s expertise is in white collar and international

February 26, 2018
Reed Smith has hired investment fund finance head Bronwen Jones from Macfarlanes.
Jones has been with Macfarlanes since 2004, when she made the move from Kirkland & Ellis, where she had spent four years working on

February 15, 2018
White & Case (W&C) has recruited three partners from Vinson & Elkins (V&E) and Andrews Kurth Kenyon to launch its seventh US office in Houston.
The oil and gas work in the city continues to be a draw for firms, as

February 8, 2018
International investment business LetterOne Holdings has hired London finance veteran Stephen Gillespie from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Gillespie moved to Gibson from Kirkland & Ellis in late 2014, becoming co-chair of

January 26, 2018
Kirkland & Ellis has hired M&A specialist Eric Schiele, who joins the firm from Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He will be based in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis, which has made a number of recent hires.
Schiele

December 18, 2017
Private equity star David Higgins has been hired by Kirkland & Ellis as co-managing partner in the firm’s London office. He joins Kirkland from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and the deal is reportedly worth